Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM APIC/ACPI Bug (patched)

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

> I think the intent of the HPET check was that the quirk wasn't needed on 
> chipsets new enough to have an HPET. 

Yes.

> Unfortunately, even if the chipset  
> has an HPET it isn't always enabled by the BIOS.

It was supposed to be correct in the NF5 reference BIOS, but somehow Asus
must have managed to break the reference BIOS.

> Clearly this quirk is too broad, it should likely be only triggering on 
> known chipset revisions with the bad timer overrides and not on all 
> NVIDIA chipsets. 

That was impossible at the point where it was implemented.

> What I am wondering is how these boards manage to work  
> fine in Windows, (presumably) without any such chipset-specific tweaks..

They use the RTC interrupt for timing instead AFAIK so a broken interrupt 0
won't affect them. That's probably why we have so many problems with
interrupt 0 on cheap systems.

I tried it once to use in Linux too BTW, but it unfortunately cannot generate
any of the standard Linux timer frequencies.

-Andi